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Charles Krauthammer: Cliff deal a 'rout'

The Senate-passed fiscal cliff bill that House Republicans now are debating is a “complete rout for Democrats” and ‘“complete surrender” for the GOP, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer said Tuesday.

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“Look, there are a lot of conservatives in the Republican caucus in the House who hate the bill for good reason. This is a complete surrender on everything,” he said about the ratio of tax hike to spending cuts.

On Fox’s “Special Report,” Krauthammer offered his prediction on how House Republican leadership will proceed.

”I think what is likely to happen is that the leadership is going to look to get the 218 that it could secure to send the bill back to the Senate with equal number of spending cuts,” he said. “If they don’t get it, (House Speaker John) Boehner will have an open vote, unwhipped, Republicans will vote as they wish. They will probably be enough with all the Democrats to pass this.”

"The Senate-passed fiscal cliff bill that House Republicans now are debating is a “complete rout for Democrats” and ‘“complete surrender” for the GOP"

It will be complete as soon as the House Republicans cave at 9p. I have never in my 45 years been more sickened by any one group of lilly livered, spineless cowards then I am of the Republican Party at this point in time. They all make me want to vomit.

How do I teach my children, nieces and nephews the purpose, value and meaning of their vote? All they have to do is look at the Republican Party in Washington and then look at me and laugh.

I have never seen such nonsense; these are grown, highly paid, presumably highly educated people who cannot do their job. I will vote against all those in office from now on. We desperately need term limits but guess who would have to vote on that? We are in deep doo-doo!

Boehner needs to go find a corner to cry in, that's all he is good for. What a loser. I can't believe the Speaker of the House can't realize that he holds the cards to send that Kenyan in the White House packing. Have the Congress create a budget with all the cuts needed to try to get this Country back to some assemblance of a real Nation. If Harry Reid and the Democratic Senate rejects it, the inform him and the Kenyan this is it. One other thing, no more raising the Debt Limit. Shut the Government Down.

I care deeply about the future of this country for the sake of my children and nieces and nephews. I am in my 50's and if I collapsed and died tomorrow I have had a good life already. So it is with a heavy heart that I witness the final sigh of a breath from anything that resembles a responsible, principled, and non-political substantial block within the Republican party.

If they are doing this to curry favor with the voters or position themselves in the court of public opinion, then they are absolutely stupid. They could empty their substantial personal bank accounts and man soup kitchen lines 6 days a week and they would still be vilified in the press. That does not include the accolades that will go to Obama and Reid and NOT to the Republicans.

If they are do this out of a belief that the fiscal cliff is somehow going to sink the country then they are even more stupid. First of all, if the economy is relentless enough to withstand the breathtaking pace of the recent increases in debt by Bush/Obama (yes they deserve each other and are waaay to similar), then it can withstand the "shock" of the "cliff". Besides, there is nothing to prevent congress from passing something in January, February, or anytime over the next 12 months to prevent the cliff from being permanent policy. What a hoax. Yet another EMERGENCY of their own creation that must be dealt with.

The Republican Party will not receive one dime, one phone call made during an election cycle (and I have made hundreds over the past 20 years you lazy scum who whine on these boards about politics and yet never work for a campaign), or even so much as a defense of your gutless party at a backyard barbecue from me again. EVER. It will have to be under a different name, and be a truly outside the beltway party with a backyard barbecue circuit instead of the DC cocktail circuit.

I don't expect this so I guess it will be a future of watching our country rot from within at an accelerated pace. No different than watching an asteroid approach to wipe us all out I guess.

OK. Now we know, if we had not already known, that there is one and only one political class in Washington, D.C. There is the socialist party with two wings, the moderate socialist wing called republicans and the maoist-leninists wing called liberals. That's it. Conservatives and Tea Party are anathema to both. Carry on, the bottom of the cliff is approaching.

>> It's wonderful to watch Eric Cantor and his tea party gang pushing the GOP over a cliff and into oblivion.

Even better is watching the Democrats drive the country over the cliff.

to JohnBalto, I completely understand your frustration but the fact is that our country has devolved into a bunch of people thinking only of themselves. There is no more country, just individuals that are easily ranged by the lies of those that only seek power and to control people. The scales have tipped, and it appears that Republicans are going to have to wait a long while before people start to realize that to truly find solutions takes discussion and not power plays, it takes teamwork and not bully tactics, it takes leadership and character, not what we have had for the past 4-6 years.

It may be therapeutic for the Republicans to be on the receiving end this time, but nothing has been done to address the fact that both sides want more than they want to pay for. We still need much more revenue and many more serious spending cuts ( and not only in the other party's programs). And we will still have a weak economy that is not growing fast enough to improve things.

YES ,, its OFFICIAL ,, the OLD dying PATHETIC GOP is finished in AMERICA as a national party. NOW the TEABAGGER PARTY emerges as its SUCCESSOR,, TEABAGGERS are the result of DRUNK southern redneck GOPS having SEX with FARM ANIMALS, which created a inbred GENETIC SWAMP which grew into the bowel MOVEMENT ,the TEABAGGERS, a swarm of toothless mindless white TRAILERTRASH whose average IQ and education level never exceeds even their shoe . IT does give much creedence to the idea that using WMDs on the SOUTHERN TRAILERPARKS is a GREAT IDEA for AMERICA .. THE TEABAG sites could be used after for nuclear waste disposaL or made into large wal mart parking lots ! .CONTACT your elected representatives to urge them to consider this plan.

This has become so Alice-in-Wonderland where what's right is wrong, and wrong is right. We all know that we're moving in the wrong direction, but rather than brake and steer away from hit we are hitting the gas and steaming head-on towards the abyss.

The House Republicans that shouted loud and clear that they understood what we wanted and wouldn't compromise on increased taxes without substantial spending cuts are now exposed as paper tigers.

There's nothing to stop this now. We're going deeper into debt with the country that we should fear the most. Meanwhile, our populace is learning to become more and more dependent on others. How can we get the uninformed 'takers' to understand that what they're doing is hurting themselves and the Country? This is completely unsustainable and unacceptable, yet if one says anything about it he's a hater, racist, bigot.